Industrial gold mining operates increasinglythrough technologies high above the land mined, including satellite imaging, automated machinery, and the airplanes carrying workers to and from mine sites, or the gold mined itself
Vancouver, BCCorporate headquarters of Goldcorp Unceded Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations In 2019, Goldcorp was acquired by Newmont Gold, making the latterthe world’s largest gold mining company
Goldcorp operations and developments (gold and silver mines)
Frequent destinations for Goldcorp private jet flights
Los Angeles International AirportFormer Goldcorp executive lives between Palm Springs (California), West Vancouver (BC) and Muskoka Lakes (ON)
Opapimiskan Lake Airport, OntarioThe route from Thunder Bay Airport serves to transport workers to the Goldcorp’s Musselwhite Gold Mine
Goldcorp owns several aircraft (e.g. Cessna C680 business jet) and contracts airlines to transport its workers (e.g. Air Creebec)
In this contour map of Vancouver, the section in blue represents an area of three square kilometres.This area represents the minimum extent of Arctic sea ice melted through the carbon emissions produced by Goldcorp’s flights in 2019.